Posted on 10/09/2005 9:31:33 AM PDT by freedomdefender
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, accompanied by her brother and other members of her family, attended services at an Episcopal church near downtown Dallas on Sunday.
Miers smiled at reporters but did not stop to answer questions as she entered the Church of the Incarnation, which Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and other well-known state politicians attend.
When asked by a reporter if she was surprised by the conservative reaction to her nomination, Miers replied, "Nice to see you."
...For years, Miers was a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas, but she and about 150 of its 1,200 active members have left the church to form a separate congregation, according to Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht. A friend of Miers, Hecht also is part of the breakaway group.
Valley View is part of a movement known as Christian Churches and Churches of Christ....As a child, Miers attended Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. In 1979, she was baptized at Valley View, and she later taught Sunday school classes there.
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It's kind od funny to me.
There are some Republicans who will complain because she isn't going to a specific church, while there are some Democrats who will gripe because she goes to church all!
If Harriet Miers is confirmed, she will be the only evangelical on the U.S. Supreme Court. I think it is interesting and important to note the relative proportion of membership in various religious groups on the Supreme Court.
And that could be why some conservatives, consciencely or unconsciencely oppose her.
*eye roll*
Church of the Incarnation is an evangelical (as they call it) church within the Episcopal diocese.
And, dang it, I missed church this morning.
"I think it is interesting and important to note the relative proportion of membership in various religious groups on the Supreme Court." - FreeRep
Why? Are you a theocrat?
I humbly suggest you are thinking about this too hard.
There are two groups opposing her...
The "evangelical" Christians because they don't have pictures of her protesting abortion clinics while holding a shotgun, and the elitist Beltway conservatives who think like the liberals that the Constitution is too difficult to be understood by us hicks in flyover country.
There are a lot of sheep baa-ing around here about Harriet.
They call us Bush supporters sheep, while I wonder what their attitudes would be if their favorite conservative commentators had supported Harriet from the beginning.
Secondly, yes I do consciously oppose her.
Vehemently so.
Haven't you been paying attention?
You don't sound crazy to me...
Harry Golden on Barry Goldwater: "I always knew that if a Jew got into the White House, he'd be an Episcopalian."
First you complained because YOU wrongly thought she was a member of this church, and, once shown that you were wrong about that, you are now whining that she didn't go to her OWN church?
You people are disgraceful.
Many Episcopal churches in Dallas are very conservative and feel more catholic than us Catholics because of their reverence and solemnity. Incarnation is described by my brother-in-law as High Church moderate.
Why are the same people who are willing to trust President Bush's judement to put their sons and daughters in harms way in Iraq now unwilling to trust his judgement to seat a strict constructionist on the Supreme Court?
If and when I ever see him doing anything that I (me myself and I) disagree with, I will.
What about koolaid drinking conservatives like yourself?
I'm not offended in the least by Harriet Miers. You resent her why? She's a woman? She's 60 years old? She's from a red state? She's Christian? She's a friend of President Bush's? She isn't an activist judge?
Keep spouting the crap. By the way, form a circle and starting shooting.
Not sure why she did. Maybe she doesn't want her own church getting a lot of idiots from the media there. Would be the reason I wouldn't go there. Sounds like a smart lady to me, if that's the reason.
Perhaps the branch of the Episcopalian church that left when the church allowed gay priests? Hmmmmmm if true, that would really tick off all on this thread who dispise her so much.
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